Episode 31 | Free Hugs Project w/ Ken Nwadike
The Ryan Tillman Show
Ryan Tillman
5.0 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Ken E. Nwadike, Jr. is an American documentary filmmaker, motivational speaker, and peace activist popularly known as the Free Hugs Guy. Ken is the founder of the Free Hugs Project, which gained popularity as he made major news headlines for his peacekeeping efforts and de-escalation of violence during protests, riots, and political rallies. Ken was featured in Google’s 2016 Year in Search video as a highlight among some of the year’s most defining moments and he has made many appearances on news programs, including CNN, USA Today, Good Morning Britain, and BBC News.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of people say they know me or they've seen me because of a video where I was either hugging the police or hugging people at like a riot rally protest. |
| 0:10.0 | But what a lot of people don't understand is that's very surface level of what my work is. |
| 0:15.0 | My work is actually intended to de-escalate violence during unrest. |
| 0:25.2 | Yo, what's going on? |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome to another episode of the It's Needed podcast |
| 0:28.8 | where we discuss real issues involved in law enforcement |
| 0:31.4 | in the community. |
| 0:32.5 | It's your boy, Ryan Tillman, founder, Breaking Gers United. |
| 0:35.4 | And I'm also joined by the one and only likes can |
| 0:37.8 | wonder himself Mr. Oh no it's the po-po. What up bro? man y'all y'all gonna hear about my day. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm good though brother I'm good I'm good I'm blessed I'm blessed I'm gonna tell y'all about my day here |
| 0:49.2 | in a minute man what's up with you oh man well we got a special guest in the building my man |
| 0:54.1 | mr. Ken Wadi K. |
| 0:56.5 | All right. Oh, hey, yeah. Y'all thought I was going to butcher that. |
| 0:59.1 | He's nervous. |
| 0:59.9 | Hey, y'all thought I was going to butcher that. But your boy showed up. You know, I show up. So my boy, |
| 1:04.7 | Ken, he's the founder of the Free Hugs Project. And my man is doing some phenomenal phenomenal work that's not an understatement so thanks for |
| 1:11.6 | thanks for being on with us today bro no problem he he drove to us from the day go today so so here's a |
| 1:16.8 | funny thing bro ken shows up to my house right he walks in he's like man you live in the boonies i'm |
| 1:22.3 | like i live in the boonies you live in the boonies san diego is not the boonies just so that everybody |
| 1:27.4 | understands oh hey that was a hate that was a hate though just because i can't live in the booty. San Diego is not the boonies just so that everybody understands. |
| 1:28.3 | Oh, hey, that was a hate, that was a hate though just because I can't live by the water, bro. |
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